Noise is a variety of sound, usually meaning any unwanted sound.
Noise may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Noise (spectral phenomenon), referring to many types of random or unwanted signals, including acoustic noise
- Noise (signal processing)
- Noise (electronics)
- Noise (economic), in a theory of pricing developed by Fischer Black
- Communication noise, factors that impair human-to-human communication
- Internet background noise, data packets addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no device to receive them
- Meta noise, irrelevant metadata in computer files
- Noise trader, in financial research, a stock trader that makes random decisions
- Noise pollution, excessive sound
- Noise control
- Environmental noise
- Ambient noise level
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Noise (2007 American film), a comedy-drama written and directed by Henry Bean
- Noise (2007 Australian film), a drama written and directed by Matthew Saville
- Noise (programming block), a Fuji TV late-night anime programming block
- The Noise (TV series), a 1996 magazine show on ITV
- The Noise (game show), on Universal Kids
- New York Noise, an indie rock music video TV program by NYCTV, 2003–2009
Journalism and literature
- Noise (book), a 2006 popular science book by Bart Kosko
- NOiSE, a manga by Tsutomu Nihei
- The Noise, a monthly newspaper in Northern Arizona
- Noise: The Political Economy of Music, a 1977 nonfiction book by Jacques Attali
Music
- Noise in music, the occurrence of noise(s) in music, including noise reduction and uses in instrument tone, in composition and in performance
- String noise, made by guitar players sliding the fingers over the strings
Genres
- Noise music, a noise-based aesthetic in experimental music and sound art
- Power noise, a derivative of noise music
- Noise pop, an alternative rock genre developed in the UK in the mid-1980s
- Noise rock, a style of rock music prominent in the 1980s
- Japanese noise rock
Musical artists
- The Noise (band), a Puerto Rican musical collective
- The Noise (string quartet), an experimental string quartet from Sydney, Australia
Musical recordings
- The Noise (album), a 1993 album by English singer Peter Hamill
- Noise (Archive album), a 2004 album by the English band Archive
- Noise, a 2005 album by DecembeRadio
- Le Noise, a 2010 album by Canadian musician Neil Young
- "Noise" (song), a 2016 song by Kenny Chesney
- "Noise" (Nightwish song), a song from Nightwish's 2020 album, Human. :II: Nature.
Other uses in music
- Noise Pop Festival, an indie rock festival started 1993 in San Francisco
- Noise Records, a German record label founded in 1983
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Noise (company), a second-party video game developer for Nintendo
Sport
- Knoxville Noise, a basketball franchise in Knoxville, TN
- Nashville Noise, a basketball franchise in Nashville, TN
Other uses
- Noise (Goidelic mythology) or Naoise, a figure in Irish mythology
- The Noises, a set of privately owned islands northeast of Rakino Island, New Zealand
- Noise (wearables company), an Indian company that produces earphones and smart watches
See also
- White noise (disambiguation)
- The Noise Company, an American record label
- All pages with titles containing noise